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Re:Saving Energy: Home Server That Automatically Suspends to... by bpye on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @08:47PM (#34799006)
I think you could maybe just snoop for ARP - when you see something trying to discover the IP wake the machine up. Supposedly some Intel NICs [0] already support this, though they also wake on multicast which you wouldn't want here.

[0] https://forums.unraid.net/topic/6455-how-to-wake-on-arp-unra...

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Re:Saving Energy: Home Server That Automatically Suspends to... by gsich on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @09:48AM (#34804503)
Thinking of Icinga or other monitoring tools, they would trigger such a request everytime.
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